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"The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people
will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation,
every other means, in my opinion, must fail."

- George Washington

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

- Benjamin Franklin

ARIZONA COMMON CORE NEWS

On this News page you can find out what currently is going on to "Restore
Local Control" over standards and the statewide assessment in our state.
Visit
our "Activism" page
as well for current legislation and community action items
you can participate in. All
previous presentations are posted here on How we adopted Common Core- "Common
Core Rotten to the Core"; "What is Wrong
with Common Core?"; Data Mining happening
on our children- "Our Children Are Not for Sale"; and Education Updates are all posted here for you to
educate yourselves and those around you on why we want state control over
our standards, assessment and protection of our student data. Updates are
also posted periodically on what is happening with Common Core across the
nation as well.

A REBRAND OF COMMON CORE IS COMING!

Arizona Rebrands Common Core AGAIN in 2016!

The Arizona Department of Education "Rebranded Common Core," under former
Superintendent John Huppenthal in 2013, by
renaming the standards "Arizona's College and Career Ready Standards"
(ACCRS) in attempt to calm down parents which did not work! As suspected the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) and State Board of
Education (SBE) are trying to "Rebrand Common Core" AGAIN with their latest 2016 draft of
the English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics Standards. The ADE Working
Groups were tasked to review and incorporate our public comments which have
been ignored. Our pleas to take
out the "prescriptive examples and developmentally inappropriate standards for
ELA and Mathematics" have been brushed aside, and the ADE Working Groups
proceeded with the 2nd rewrite with very little
changes to the Arizona's College and Career Ready Standards (aka Common
Core). If you put lipstick on the Common Core pig, it is still a
pig!

Here are the reviews that our combined groups- Arizonans Against Common
Core, Opt Out AZ and "Mommy Lobby AZ"- submitted to
the SBE K-12
Standards website
on October 3rd for the draft 2016 ELA and
Mathematics
Standards. Parents voices were NOT heard, our comments
were NOT incorporated, and here we have another
"Rebrand of Common Core" if we let this happen. WE NEED YOUR VOICES at the
Standards Development Committee Meeting on December 14th, 9am at the ADE
building (1535 W. Jefferson, Phoenix, AZ 85007) to let our voices be heard that "WE WILL NOT ACCEPT A REBRAND OF
COMMON CORE on our watch!"

ARIZONA SCIENCE (2004) AND SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS (2005) READY TO
REVIEW BY DECEMBER 3RD!

ARIZONA 2016 DRAFT ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA) AND MATHEMATICS STANDARDS
READY FOR REVIEW BY OCTOBER 3RD!

SBE Standards Development Committee

The State Board of Education (SBE) Standards Development Committee
announced that the first drafts of the 2016 English Language Arts (ELA) and
Mathematics Standards are ready for public review on August 19, 2016. These
standards can be found on
their SBE website here. All comments need to be posted by October 3, 2016!
Public meetings will also be hosted by the SBE from September 12th-September
21st and you can find those
locations
here. Let us take FULL advantage of this opportunity in reviewing the
2016 ELA and Mathematics standards and make sure this is NOT a "Rebrand of
Common Core!"

GOVERNOR TASKS SBE TO "REVIEW AND REPLACE" COMMON CORE

Governor Ducey called a meeting on April 28, 2015 to meet with "Arizonans Against Common Core," "Opt Out AZ,"
and the rest of the "Mommy Lobby" who are actively fighting Common Core and
he wanted our organizations involved in the process to "Remove and Replace
Common Core." This meeting was attended by leaders from "Arizonans Against
Common Core;" leaders from "Opt Out AZ;" leaders from the "Mommy Lobby;" and the Governor's staff- Governor Ducey, Laddie Shane, JP
Twist and Dawn Wallace. State Board of
Education members, Jared Taylor and Chuck Schmidt were also in attendance.